Alison Milner

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A silent space between

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Find, make 2021

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Alison Milner works at the intersection between art, craft and design, having originally studied Furniture Design at the Royal College of Art.

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She is inspired by the geometry of nature and by a simple, minimalist use of materials. The relationship between nature and the manmade is a key theme in her practice. Her aesthetic is clean, clear and quiet - reducing, simplifying and uncovering underlying patterns. She likes to inject gentle humour, visual poetry, narrative and a sense of place into her work.

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The collection she is showing in this exhibition is called ‘Nature Table’. It consists of miniature frames and plinths for displaying natural objects - secular shrines for pine cones and quails eggs - giving humble objects a space of their own.

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The collection is mostly unglazed porcelain and black stoneware, made using a deliberately limited range of tools and techniques.